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U AfrimMm,UrttsnllimI, Prnmmth tnnf, P*HU Ltiwatm?, Petit** m>itt? Current Ifiet c]the Jay. VOL. VXXI.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H? SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. MARCH 24, 1893. NUMBER 12. \ ^ -* ! V-ii DIX1E_NEWS. J The Beloved Sonth Gleaned and Epitomized. AU the News and Occurences Printed Here in Condensed Form. A family at Newton, N. C., hns sixteen dogs. Tarboro, N. C., is to have and artesian wcl! water supply. Richmond county, N. C., jail contains nineteen prisouers, several hold on murder charges. Fifty-two pooplc have lately gouo in a party from Buikc county, N. O , to Kansas. Tlirce men aro soon <o leave Ashovillc, N. C , iu a bont *on their way to tlu World's Fair. The boat is rradv. men who fubnoy is an t stnblishedram^^^wHflMJ Burcn, Missouri. ~bB| The city o f, .V i ck sbu rjrJihuyfc^'TtT'l^^ " veil a splendid monumcWwo^noConfcd- i crate dead. 1 Work has begun on tho new f500,000 ' cotton mill at Columbia, 8. C. It is lo 1 cntcd on tli: canal. < 13 us in ess nt t he Charleston, 8. C., Custom House is dull?only eight dollars 1 were collected last week. Willis Watcon, who hiokc out of the , jail at Kinston, N. C., through the roof, Sunday night of Inst we k, hns not been heard from sine-}. fiumtor, 8. C., is to have a fine hotel and opera bou c Tho first is p ojectcd by General Moies, which guarantees its success. John 8hult, a hrakcinm on the East Tin esscc and Western North Carolina railway, was accidently killed Monday n ar Vullcy Forge. Hamlet, N. C. lias its indust ics Bincc the Cotton Compr ss s ut down a OA nor/* * * ? * 1 * 1 WV UVIV llllifVCII I MI III m?*D lO the development of the resources. The municipal election in Laurens, 8 C., took place Tuesday an I excited grcnl interest, a very large v>.tc b-.ing cast. I. W. Siukins wns elee'ed mayor. Chester, Spartanburg and Columbis are aspirants for the location of the South i CnroliHu Girls' Normal and Industrial ( School, with the chances in favor of the , latter. i Ninety-two of th>) students of David son College, N. C , are working two hours a day on a dsra for a lake there, on i which they will place some handsome i boats, s. i A charter was issued to the Carolina 1 Manufacturing and lleduction Comdany of Ulacksburg, B.C., with a capital of - $1,000,000. The purpose of the company ' is to do a general mining business. Mrs. Helena Brayton, of the 8outh ' Carolina board of women managers of the World's Pnir, is organizing a band of negroes to sing plantation melodies at the ixp<sition. Gcorgi i began paying pensions Wednes day to 8,200 veterans and widows. The latter will get $6') n year, and the veter aus will be piid according to a sliding scale. A prize of $1,.000 will be awarded tb* best drilled company at the international competitive drill between the national guard of the tcvcral States during the uaval rendezvous in April, 1893, io the city of Norfolk, Va. At Hampton,Vs.,Friday night Captain James 81ielby, a well known horse dealer was shot in the neck and killed in TrueI lood's saloon while trying to get a pistol front Richard Trucblood, the proprietor of tho p'ncc. The Grand Camp of Virginia, Confederate Veterans, has been invited tt meet io Portsmouth on tho 18th of May, on which occasion the annual Memorial Day exercises will take place, and the bronze statues on the Confederate monument on Court street will be unveiled. John McRose.aged eighty-two,the oldest citizen of Dickinson county,Tenn.,was married to his y. ung and pretty neighbor,Misa G'iccrn Recce, at the residence of tho bride. Mr. Hose is the father of nineteen children by a former marriage, all of whom are married. The Charleston News and Courier's Columbia correspondent says: It seems to . bo pretty generally und- rstood in political \ circles tbnt Ex-Congressman George D. I Tillman will be a factor in the next Guber* I natorial contest. The chances are alto- \ S ether favorable to his becoming a.caudiate for Governor. d The yellow jasmine will soon be in that the pollen of the blosioin has blown from Georgia into Virginia day* b. foro , the plant lifcd bloomed in the latter { 8tate.-N. Y. Sun. j A Wilkes county baby, now five weeks \ old, weighs only 2f pounds. I A jealous girl in Richmond, Va., stabbed her lover whh a hat pin a- d married i hiin on his death bed, as was supposed, 1 but these is a fair chance of his recovery. | There is a letter held for postage at I the Lake Maltl.nd Fla , postofHcc be- I cause the writer put ou a Florida fcrtili 1 eer inspection s'amp in place of the rew Columbian postage stamp, which is about ! the same size and color. Hairbreadth Sec ape. A bad accident which was one of the narrowest e capes from instant death possible, happened at Vandemore, Plamico county, N. C., on Saturday. As Mr. Morri-sey's son, Coolidgo, about 15 years of age, was cutting wood, his little broth* er rau under the axe as it was descending and received the blow oa the top of his head. The axe glanced and out out a piece of the skull bone one and one-half Inches squaro so that the pulsation of the brain could be discerned. Dr. Q. 8. Attmqfe, of 8tonewall, attended to the < wound. The piece of bone was left out, but the cut portion of the scalp was placed in pos'tion again and three days rHE EXCHANGE'OF COURTESIES. Fha Grand Army of the Republic Fur* niches a Ward in the Richmond Soldiers' Home. Richmond, Va.? A large delegation of the Washington committee, which had in charge the arrangements for the late Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at that point, came down to Richmond for the purpose of presenting their acknowledgements to Lee Post, of the Confederate Veterans, of this city, for the hospitality and courtesy extended by the members ot that post to the veterans of tho Grand Army who visited the battlefield about Richmond. The executive committee in Washington, acting in the nunc of the Grand Arm* ? . i'l -.1 ? ? nnuuiu hjiucun; uiuiurty from that organization, dcti rmincd to pro. uro and present some suitable jM^moninl to the Leo Pod. A sp-.ci; 1 jdH^Uce therefore vi-itcd Richmond since to nscertaiu whit, in ^^^pWMent, would be tho most apHHB^HRcstiuioniid. Upon finding (H^WloLci; Post was 1 ngely interested n tho support of the Confederate Homo ind that tiiii was not as yet entirely, furnished an entire wnrd of this hospital hems Ivis, whi h they have done, proriding its beds aud all bedding and furliturc p? rtniniug to each and the general urniturc i f tho ward as well, and this was formally presented lo the veterans )f Lee P. st Wednesday nicrht. Gold-Minning- in the South. BT C. B. WARKAND. Many years before the discovery of tho California gold fiolda gold-mining in the western part of Georgia and North and South Carolina bad been an established industry. With slave iabor gold-miniug in tho South paid well, but since tho war & number of spasmodic efforts which have been tnnde to operate the mines as a ru e risuited in failures. In the early days ^,of mining a shaft was sunk at some convenient spot on a rein, tho ore was roasted'nearby.and was then carted, often for m'lcs, to a waterpower. Five dollars per ton of recoverable g Id was the minimum limit at which these mines paid. The pyrites or gold-bearing sulphurets wore considered worthless snd wire allowed to go to waste. As a rule the quantity of ore taken out of amine wns insignificant,and a vast amount of gold still exists which can today be profitably recovered. Goldmining property cnti be bought very cheap?almost at a nominal figure. 8 mo time neo I vUitad one of the most interesting and valuable of the gold-bearing quartz dis'r;cts, lyiug at the foot of the Blue ltidge mountains on the banks of Broad river, near Smith's ford, iu York county, South Carolina. Within a radius of less than two tnihs [ have been nineteen veins of quartz which, without exception, con'nin more or less g-dd, generally in paying quantities. The vcins^all run pnrn'lcl from the northeast to the sou'hwest, varying from two to thi'ty feet in thickness. I have followed one of these veins by the dri t rock nnd cro,>piiig8 for five miles. The drift rock indicat-.d by pit marks that it hnd contained at one time gold pyrites. These veins arc almost pcrpcndicu'nr; the bottom of oone has ever been reached, and it is curr.utly repotted that tho deeper the shnft was sank the better the qua'ity of the ore became. Probably the best of theso mines, as well as the minllest and most comp-ct, is the 40 acre true' known as the obi Smith mine. It has five distinct veins running through the whole length of the property, 44 ? yards, and far beyond on udjoiniug land*. The veins will v.ry from three to five feet in thicknc s, though only two of them have over been mined. The Jeffrey vviu had a shaft sunk 100 feet nud hid a drainage tunnel. , The Bmith vein hnd two shafts of 150 feet aud a tunnel All of th- sc hive caved in to u great extent. When tho Sni'th vtiu wns iu good order it exposed the vein to a depth of 150 feet and a lengt'i of 125 feet,, with [in average width of three feet. To form some idea of the quantity of gold locked til Ann nf f linen anino T nol/ni liitncl ?* spice of 150 by 125 by three feet contains 51,750 cubic feet, nod ns it takes obout thirteen cubic feet of quartz ore to weigh one ton, the space exposed contain d 4562 tons. The ?mine, with slave labor, produced $7 00 of freo gold per ion; tho pyrites orjjold-bearing sulphur[ ts thrown away * could not be less thin two thiids of the free gold, or $4.06 per ton, or a total contents of $11 00 of gold per ton. Hence a total of over $50,000 id gold is locked up in this small space. The length exposed was less than one vein, and tho depth' probabinTy, that this BffrrWHnOno has $3,000,000 of gold treasured a*ay, and this 40-acre tract has Ave such veins, apparently all alike. About one and one-half mihs from the Smith mine is the Magnolia mine, which is on a much larger tract, containing ninety-six seres. Th s mine has ten distinct veins, varving in thickness from two to thirty feet, f'ho largest, the Magnolia vein, is thirty feet wide and exposed to % height of 150 feet; another vein is ton feet wide. One hundred samples taken promiscuously from ns mnuy differ, nt places on this vein assayed $4.87 of gold per too. Some of the smaller veins assayed as high as $152 of gold per ton. Closo to these mines are still two more imnllor mines, the Habit and the Tucker. IT.aoti hu twn vftin* nf farrt fnof tht^lmoaa A splendid water-power, could be easily obtained about halt-way between the Bmith mine and the Magnolia mine. The climato in (he Southern gold mining district is excellent, neither too cold nor too warm, and perfectly healthy. Labor'is abundant anct cheap; an ablebodied men can easily be hired for seventy five cents or one dollar per day. Fuel is also cheap and abupdant, cordwood can be had for $1 .50 per cor.l dc- I livered. The time is near at hand when all these mines will bo worked . Uoldminiug South nev.ir will be in the nature of a bonanza, but with the help of modern methods and machinery it will become a safe land remunerative Industry. A Costly Stock Farm. Nasbyili.*, Tan*.?Richard Croker, >f New York, has purchased a half in terest in tlio famous Beltvineado IHqcJbi Perm for f800(,p00 cash. FAMILY BURNED ALIVE. A Dreadful Fire at Rutherfordton, North Carolina. A Wife and Two Children Perish in the Flames. RuTnRHFonTON, N. O.?The home ol Thom s Dixon was burned to the ground Wedne day night. Mr. Dixon's wife and two children were burned to death. The story is one of surpassing sadness, and i.s details are sufficient to wring the hearts of nil with pity. Mr. Dixon is s hardware merchant here and also traveling salesman for the hardware house of Cottie I, Wutkin' & Co., of Richmond, Va. lie located in Rutherfordton 5 years ago and built a very handsome home. There his wife and three children lived while he was away on business. The house was loc ted on a hill on the outskirts of the town and was one of the prettiest residences of that mountain section. The fire occurred at S nVliwW ll?. Dixon was procuring the children for b?d, and wns silting by ? table with the baby in hrr arms. The baby was playing with some article on the table and accidentally knocked over a kerosene lamp. The lamp exploded, throwing blazing oil all about the room. In an instant the clothing of Mrs. Dixon, as well as that of bar children, was ablaze. 8bc picked up twos, of the little ones and throwiag them upon the bed, endeavored to smother the tire by wrapping the brd clothing around them All this time, the devoted mother \v.is being burned by the flames that envclope l her own clothing. Her oldest child, aged six years, dashed n pitcher of wat- r up ui her mother and flod from the house. Just nt that time a negro man appeared and dragged Mia. Dixon from the house, the interior of which* was a solid blaze. The house, wi h tho little oucs in the bed, was burned to thegiouncL Mr. Dixon was absent in Shelby on business and kucw nothing of the dread* ful fate of his household until la'e in the nigl.t. Then he hastened to Rutherfordton nnd reached there at 1 o'clock in the morning, in time to see his wife give her expiring gasp. '1 he ng-:s of the children burned were 2 and 4 yenrs respectively. Tho three bodies were takou to Charlotte, N. C.t and interred in ?lmwood cemetery in two graves, ono f.-r tho mother and tiia other for her children. Remunerative Farming. A correspondent of tho Charleston, 8. C., News and Courier writes to that paper from Nincty-8ix as foil iw?: "There arc a great many farmers throughout tho State who seem to think that there is no ready money in anything except cotton. N??w, in order to relieve those who are laboring under this impression, I desire iu can uiuir nvieiiuun 10 vuc tiii hi us cr produced last year by It. P. Cftslpbi a prosperous farmer of our town. T) lands cultivated are the old Cambric lands within n mile of this place. Hi Gilphiu has jus1, furuished me with the following statement, and therefore it can be relied upou as correct. He snys he produced last year with three mul s the following crops: On acros, 800 bunhH* at S3 eenla $Sto AiiiIPo<k> liunillt's of foddrr.t'iUmitel loo On So ooroii. ?3 bnlr* of cotton at 133 per bate S75 (.11 73 ai res. Itixi bushel* of oat* at SI crnt* 8S0 on is aero*. M011 Iwlp* of clover hajr at 75 cent* Itoo On 5 ncrcs, too bale* of pea vine hay ai 50 cent* too a rami total for all crop* $3743 "It will he seen from the above table that the clover crop is far more valuable than cither of the other crops He realiz'.-d nearly twice as much from twentyfive acres in clover as he did from fifty acres in cotton, besides there ia vary little expense attached to ita production. Evi ry farmer should have his barn filled with clover hay. It is an excellent feed for all stock, especially cattle. Milk cows thrive on it. It increases the flow of utilk and produces beautiful rich yellow butter. Mr. Galphin has fattened and killed several fine hogs, and saja that lie has plenty of this valuable and indispensable article of food to supply him this year. "I did not ascertain from Mr. Galnhin the amount of his expenses incurrea in producing these crops, but it would be safe to say he cloared over and above expenses at least $1,000 to the mule, which must bo admitted by ail as very fine farming. If every farmer would adopt Mr. Galphin's plan we would bave no use for the Alliance nor the Ocala platform, the sub treasury bill or nothing of the kind, but wou)d be a happy, independent people, and the cry of oppression and hard times would be a thing of the past. I simply give this, hoping that it niay movei beneficial-* mime uuui farmers at lesst wno bave been sticking to their cotton idol in neglect of all other cro; s. "Just before milling this Mr. Galphfn asktd me to add, in addition to the above crops, that he mido thirty bushels of barley and 100 gallons cf sorghum." EGYPTIAN COTTON SEED. An Effort Will be Had* to Introduce the Product in thia Country. Wahiinqtow, D. C.?The Egyptian cotton reed purchased by Secretary Rusk through the United States Consul-General at Cairo, Egypt, has been received at tho Department of Agriculture. The purpose of this importation of seed as set forth in Mr. Rusk's last report as Secretary of Agriculture, is to undertake, with the co-operation of the experiment stations in the cotton States, experiment* with a view to producing cotton of home growth which may serve aa an efficient substitute for the Egyptian, of which, during the last fiscal year, more than $3,000,000 worth waa imported into thia country, an increase of lo per cent, over the previous year, and of consideiably more than 100 per cent, over the tear ending 1890. The cotton seed received at the Dcpa-tinent consists of two of the best known Egyptian varieties, the "Aflfl" and the "Bamiah." The diatributioa will he made to the experiment stations in the cotton States, and alao through the senator* for thoee Statea to planters whom they may recommend aa persons well qualified and willing to give the Egyptian seed a careful triaL A report on the Cvinditlona of the soil and climate and methods of cultivation of the Egyptian cotton Is being prepared for the Department under the direction of our Cooaiil-Qeneral fa Barret, "WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS?" Moody Endorses A Check for $400 and PrernU It to the T. M. O. A. CuAitLOTT*. N. C.?That Evangelist Moody is a gfcat man, great with power from on II gty all acknowledge; but an occurrence took place here at the close of the great revival meetings oondacted by him, wh'ch nnde even the best look at him aghast and wonder "what manner of man is this?'f The fimnra committee p?ll*i ?t w. Moody's roora,sftcr the last service st the Auditorium, nd presented him with a ture of $700,1 $>00 of which wss for Miss 'yson. Tbe4mount for Mr. Moody wss ia two checkl, one for $400, the other for $100. Whtn Mr. Hnnna handed them to Mr. Moody he glanced at them and taking his pon wrote his name across the back of ono of the checks, and handed it back to Mr. ,IIanoa, saying, "There's my subscription to your Young Men's Christian Asspciation." Mr. Hsnna and all began expressing their thanks, when suddenly Mrrllanna gave a start of surprise and said, ".Mr. Moody, you've made a mistake; you endorsed the wrong check; tlft* is the $400 check." "Mo, -no, I didn't mako a mistake." said he, in his quick, dff hand, but kindly way; "this one'is enough to pay. my expenses," pointing to the f 100 check. The committee was too dumbfounded to speak. This is the most remarkablo occurrence that ever happened here. It brings ud a little incido it that occurred in Mr. Moody's room just after he came hero. V At scveril of tbo evangelistic meetings held here a public opportunity was given to the people to make up a purse for the evangelist. Sgrnc members of the committee at these meetings wont up to Mr. Mood>'a room to sound him and sec if he would permit them'to take up a public collection. The; told him thit they did not wish to offcnd his s use of propriety and wanted to know if he objected to an opportunity bejng given to the people to make a contribution. "What 1" said Mr. Moody, "for mfct" "Yes," was the reply. "No," said Mr.l M ?ody. "I could not thinkjof fuch a Vbing. I would rather drink;jUljh^Uf the brooks." - petoMhB'o protection. Georgia'*; vWl ?& Moonshiner Goes to JsliTpt Like a Kan. Atlanta, G?lr-A woman moonshiner, Mrs. Mnlinda Tw< cr. was arrested Saturday morninj Ad brought before United States Cominflnioncr Gaston in default of a $il00 bond. 1 Mrs. Turner acknowledged hur guilt and throughout the trial whs very defiant] refusing to msko any at'empt at givl'it bail and ignoring the fact tlmt she cou'd be sworn In her own behalf. Blio is lite mother of John and Will Turner, ncjtofi us moonshiners in White Uouuty. 1 " - * Wng iTiicit and it is ?y. The two n out on bail tilling, be about 50 per. "Don't aid she to a . folks won't get off them .kin' whiskey in the lame j. long Saturday mv. ?to the still jot 'bout ua? - > "I up and the whole otitis* were my owAPjfclB.ird to him that I didn't bleev^TWPJudgc ud do nothin' wi' ine no how, lease I wuz a woman. Whole outlay's plum mint now, so 'taint no use to make any bond. "Jes soon as I(gi s out I'm going to make more wh'.*key inoomhinc?good, too. Jcsncts, en you know yourself 'taint no kind or way tcr make jis a drop ej two. "Did I sell nnyf I didn't give none away." Mrs. Turner was taken to jail. STRAWBERRY BLONDES. The Latest Fad in Railroading- -A Royal Orimaon Train and its . Equipment. The Charleston News and Courier says: The custom among ra:l>oads lines of having some pet train upon which they bestowed^unutud attention and favor is I ccouting more acd more popular each yv-ar. 'I ho "Nancy Hanks'' of ths Georgia Central, the "F?st Flying Vir giniiwi" of tho Chesapeake and Ohio Ttoad, the "lloyal Bluo Line" of the Baltimore and Ohio and the "West Indian Mail" of tho Atlantic Coast Line are instances of the popuiailty of this fad. The Bahimoroland Ohii Road now anr 1,811 operate a "Royal f!rim?nn T.in?" Ifc*.an ?B.lil 1 - ? i Chicago. The Railway Review, speaking of (he announcement in a humorous manner, says: "Tho train will be painted a bright crimson from the nose of the cowcatcher < Icar back to the bumpers en the hindmost coach, A redheaded fireman will shovel coal for a redheaded engineer, who wiH receive his orders from a red-headed conductor, and will answer the signals of a red-headed brakeman, and special rates will be made to red headed passengers." It is furthsr noted by the lt-vlew that this will be tho only train in the world that will be strictly in favor of the colorline, and the Review is inclined to think that the enterprising general passenger agent of the Baltimore and Ohio will be responsible for some "red-headed" passenger agents ai well as" passengers. Colored Laborers at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa.?About 250 negroes from the South arrived at Brinton Station iHusday afternoon. Colored labor~ era will be given the first chance by the Carnegie Companv at all ita works in preference t> foreigners who apply for work. Jmncs GaWy, general manager of the plant, expeots marly 1,000 others in a month. Tins will mean that as soon as possible all Slavs will be dismissed. nri -a? . aaa # ? i Here mo uouui a,vuu roreigners Altogether. Death of an African Btebop. Wasbikotor, D. C ?-Bishop Broen of the African Mcthodlar Episcopal Church, died here At noon, aged id. He r had been ill for ? >iui time and bis de.ttb vu not unexpected bishop Brown was eminent in tbe Church nnd wai grcetlj rcap"cted end citcomed. I V COTTON MILL BLOWN UP. One Knn Killed and Many InjuredShock Felt Six Miles Away. Fohkbt City, N. C.?A t. riible catastrophe took place here Monday morn ing at 7 o'clock. The boiler of the Floit-nce Cotton Mills exploded, dealing dcHth and disus ter broadcast. The boiler, engine and piping were totally deiuo ishcu, some of the piping nnd fragments of the boiler and machinery flying hundreds of yards in orcry direction, llricks and timbers were thrown high in the air and fell on and damaged nearly every house in the neighborhood, and the windows in the mill were shattered and the water works and machinery damaged. The boiler nnd onorinn rnnma nw? Jr? ruins A ??? ?O'"" " "*- ? ogwuu boiler,weighing several tons, was thrown s me thirty yards. The windows in ninuy houses in town were completely shattered. The operatives had just gone to wi rk when the explosion took place, and those thnt were not killed or injured were terribly stunned. People in the neighborhood wire thrown to the ground by the shock. Homer Ilurrill, fireman, was killed instantly. Tho suliercrs are: Julius Dean, dangerously hurt; Ollle Rabb, seriously injured by falling timbers; I. L. Sanders, engineer, injured internally, considered dangerously. Several others were slightly hurt by fnlting bricks and timbers. W. P. Hurt, superintendent, was pa?nfu ly though not seriously hurt by the falling of the roof in the engine room. The shock was felt at Ruthcrfordton, six miles distant, the people there thinking it was an earthquake. The windows of Dr. Harris1 house of that place, were shattered. Crowds of people are here viewing 'he ruins. Beginning of Bice Culture in South Carolina. The introduction of rice growing into 8outh Carolina nearly 200 jears ago wna by something very like an accident. Thomas Lnndgravc Smith, before coming to this coun'ry, had paid some attention to rice culture, and on setting in South Carolina had bccomo impressed with the idea thnt the climate and low-lying lands of that region wcro well adapted for rice growing. Tn ?!>? year 1094 n smill vessel from Madagascar put into Charleston harbor in distress. It turned out that there was in tho cook's keeping a small quantity of rice, and this fell into tho hands of Landgrave Smith, who planted it in n low, mo st portion of his garden. The plant grew ami ripened in a manner thnt was most encouraging. Mr. Smith distributed the seed among his neighbor.', and eventually rice became the staple product of the colony. At first the rice was cultivated on the high land and on little spots of low ground . _Thc low ground was soon found preferable, and the inland swamps were cleared to extend tho culture of the plant As the fields, in the process of time, became too gras v ana stubborn, they were abandoned for new clearings, and so on until at length the superior adoption of the tide lands and the great facilities for iriigntion afforded by their location was discovered. For thes; the inlvnd p'nntations were gradually abandoned. CARLISLE'S PROPOSITION. Provide for tho Issue of Currency by Bunks Under State Charters. Washington, I>. C. ?The Star says that Secret rv Carlisle cxprcta to have ready to submi s >nve financial propositions by the time C->ngri8g meets, which will form the basis of agree meat between Congress nu I the executive on the vexed financial problem. Gcntlemeu who havo talked with bim on the subject sny that he has n plan pretty well outlined in his mind, which will involve a comple e reorganization of our financial system. It is said that it will include the repeal of the law compelling the nurchnsc of silver by the govenun lit and will provide for the deficiency of currency by Eroviding for the repeal of the Stnte ank t^x and the isRuc of lurrency by banks under S'ntc chnrters, under the general government, ilie sccur.ty for the currency provided for under the laws of the States, requiring the approval of tho government. COTTON MILL OWNERS PROTEST Against tho Reduction of Hours oi X.abor.--Tho Bouth Gaining on tho Noith. A Boston dispatch Tuc-dny rnvs: At a Reoripg bef re the labor cmimittcc of the L gl.-laturo i representatives of the cotton mills at Cliicopcc, Fall llivcr, Lowell and Taunton remonstrated against the reduction of the hours of labor in manufacturing com aniestofl-l per week, claiming they cannot stand the competition of mills in other States and England. Toe treasurer of tho Massachusetts mills, at Lowell, and the Whittenton mills Tn lintrsis ant/1 La - ? I--a _ I_ .bluivm, oniu iiu nas nusUiUlt'lj dtircn from the State, and that he in going South to build a mill in order to hold his export trade. (lis goods, he aid, can be made much cheaper in tho South on the indical machine. The S uth is gaini g rapidly on the North, though he did n< t believe the South woild destroy Northern business. GENERAL NEWS. The Pith and Point of Daily Occurrences. The Solvation Army will build a magnificent barracks on a lot in New York costing |2-0,000. 8- . n colored cinverts were baptized in a creek in AtchUou, Kan., a week ago through a ho'c cut in several inches of ic?*. V* Secretary of the Navy Traccy made his first appearance as a practicing lawyer befoe the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Princess Kaiaulani made a visit to the White House, and was charmed with .the 'fleet lady of the land," sa>ing afterwards that Mrs. Cleveland was the first woman the hud (vcr fallen In love with. Denter, Colorado, proposes to irrigate 800,000 acres in its set tion of the State, and, to coma s c? with, will dig a canai coating 91,000,000. ;t ( i BISSELL'S POSTOFFICE POL ICY. Offensive Partisanship will Not Neessarily Constitute Cuuse for Ho moval. Wabhinuton, D. C. ?To a prominent Western Congressman, who talked with Postmaster General Bisscll concerning his policy as to removals, the latter said: "It is not the intention of tlnr administration to remove any postmasters until their term of olti c has expired, except for serious cause." "Will offensive partisanship be acceptable cause?" whs a>ked. "1 don't say it will not," said Mr. Bisscll, "but every case will have to stand on its own merits, and it will have to be a grave ease b fore a removal is made. The fact that a postmaster bar taken interest in the work of bis party will not, I think, be cons'dcred sufficient cause; but, as I have said before, every case piust stand by itself. Complaints of incompetency, n? gleet of business or absolute misuse of vriil certainly receive at tent on." lie also sucKCsted viKimiKi nw mi! iiiuiicst man ne naci ever seen, anil went baek and had his sistci's child named for him, saying at the time that "Grovcr Cleveland will be President of the United States souie day." Grovcr Cleveland Bridger*, it is understood, will ask for a fourth class po?toffiee iu his county, urging his claims that he was the first child to be named for Grovcr Cleveland. Tho Jamas City Tenants Will Pay Rent and Remain. Bai.kioii, N. C.?James A. Bryan, of , Newberne, having sued for and received the right to the possession of the lands on which James City,opposite Ncwbetnc, is located, ou tho other side of Trent ; river, where several thousand negroes live who took posse pion during the war, attempted a few days ago to have some occupauts ejected. Such resistance was made that the sheriff desisted from executing the writ. A large number, however, have been paying rents to Mr. T? ..-.l Ik 1-? ' * " uiiau ?iii? mu ruoisiiiin u was cuiciiy instigated by some white store keepers. It 1 is said that a peaceable settlement will be made by the payment of nominal rents. No collision is now anticipated. ' A Negro Mob Avenges a Crime. Mbmpiiis, Tknn ?Hufus Haywood, a colored planter, was assassinated by Lee Walton, a notorious negro desperado, Sunday night, at Villnyuma, Miss. After robbing his victim, Walton tied, but was run down by bloodhounds and captured Monday morning, lie was taken to Villayumn, where he was being guarded by the sheriff until the arrival of the train for Itollin Fcrk, the county scat. Just before tl?c train arrived, a mob of 500 negroes ov<rpowc:ed the sheriff and took the murderer t > the scene of his crime, where he was hang.d to a limb and his body hi ed with bid ets. A Big Steel Plant for Birmingham. New Yobs. ? Ex Senator Thomas C. Piatt confirmed the report that lie is soon to step out of the presidency of the Tenuctsco Coal and lion Company. Henry DeBaidelahen will be elected president at the annual meeting of the company. This arrangement, which it entirely amicable, was decided upon a year ago, when the I>cBarJelahen Iron and Steel Company joined bauds with the Tennessee Coal and Iran Company. The directors of the company met Mondav and completed arrangement* for the building of a big steel plant in Birmingham, 4i? J 1 that the recommend itiou of members of Congress would not, per so, give It preference over others. The l'o tnjasterQcncrnl added that the department had promulgated a general rule, under which postofficcs would not be given to keepers of stores. Mr. Bisscll said that lie did not mean that the rule should npply to small villages in distant States, where, unless some storekeeper would handle tho mail, no one could be induced to accept the office; but he did most emphatically intend to rcfun to appoint any postmasters, presidential or otherwise, who would not give their personal attention to the bushiest of hindling the mail and who simply desired to secure the olfico as an advertisement for their business. Counterfeit Money in Richmond. New York.?Detective 8erg? nnt Jungt succeeded in running down what may prove to he the operations of a gang who arc ranking counterfeit money in Richmond, Va., and passing it in New York c ty and Et > >kiyn. Wednesday morning he arrested Frank Halsteml and David Bnttholomcw, of Brooklyn, on the complaint of David Folkard, a jeweler, who charged them with pissing count' rfeit $50 bills on him 011 January 25. Wednesday morning the rain called again at his store and tried to sell F?dknrd a watch which th> y had bought from him. The jeweler recogu'zed them and called in Dctcc'ivc Jungt. Tliev were arraigned in the United States Court in Brooklyn nnd held to aw >it the action of the United States grand jury, llalstend admitted that he passed $111 in counter fcit inoiit y iii Brooklyn and New York, and that iho money had been made iu | Hiohmond, Va. Edison's Great Works Flooded. Schenectady, N. Y.?In the night the ice in tin Mohawk lliver, west, of the city, broke iij> sod formed an immense gorge ngninst the Fitchburg Itiilroad bride, tlrco miles from here. The water overflowed the banks, flooding Edison's park and that part of the city occupied by the Wcstinghousc Company and the general deetric works The first floors of the Edison general electric woiks, which aggregate sixteen acres, are under water to the depth of three feet; both plants have shut down aud four thousand men are laid off. All the exhibits which the Edison Company were preparing for tlie World's Fair are partially destroyed by water, as is also most of the stock on the first floor. The loss is estimated at over half a million. Grovsr Cleveland Bridgers. Mr. Cleveland has only one namesake old enough to hold office, and that young man is (Irover Cleveland Bridgers, of Halifax County, North Carolina, 24 years of ago. Pome twenty-four years ago the young man's uncle, Col. Martin, went to Buffalo to receive treatnient at a hospital t.ml met Grovcr Cleveland, an obscure young lawyer. C >1. Martin thought /<i?....i...wi it ? ! THEY DIVORCE THEMSELVES. A. Brother of Bishop Haygood and His Wife Publish a Oard Announcing' the Fact. Ati.anta, Ga.?The followiDg card has been made public: The undersigned have this day dissolved their rotation as man and wife. Ncith' r claims nor believes any cause for divorce against the other, cither ujpon Scriptural or legal grounds. Having gradually discovered what we did not know nt the time of our marriage, that we did not and do not have that degree of mutuil love essential to a happy uaion nud feeling that time widens rather than hoels the breach, we belie to it our duty to dissolve our marriage relations. Wo will in the future regard ourselves aa neither husband nor wifs the one to tho other, and neither will interfere nor be responsible for the other. Signed in duplicute at Atlanta, Go., this '26th day of January, 180ft. Mart H. Hatoood, Wm. A. Hayqood. William A. Haygood is a brother of Bishop Atticus G. Haygood of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, aud is a leading church and society mau. wiskTvojius. Ornamental oharactcrs arc full of weak spots. A man with a bad liver very often has a good heart. If t!io tonguo could kill not many would live to old age. Tho man who picks his own cross never gets tho right one. Every man in a brass baud thinks his horn makes tho best music. * Thero is no greater misfortune in life than to have a bad mother. The caslst thing for a loafer to do is to And fault with busy people. The trouble with people who can talk is that they are apt to say too much. The diamond has the most snarkle. but window glass does the inost good* When peoplo aro hired to bo good they quit work as soon as the pay stops. Tbo shadow of n misfortune will generally frichton u? ip?r? Il??.U tile dhiJtf! itself. The world is full of Hon debtors, but it is hard to find people who won't run from a hornet. Every now acquaintance wo mako has the power to tell us something wo didn't know about ourselves. Do good as often as you have opportunity, and it will not bo your fault if you are not kept busy. One of the times when a man begius to cry and sigh that aTPiNi^u are not honest is wheo he gcts>the hi iTr '* ill ill i When all peoplo are willing to boc.uni ~ as good as they think their aioi.ghb >n ought to be, the millennium will come. A little weed has no more rig'itto live than a big one. To spire any kin 1 of a sin may mc.au to lote your life. ?Us c's Horn. Magnified by Mist. Tho magnifying power of mist has often been described, but perhaps never in a inoro striking manner than by Mr. Pike in tho ?*B irreu Ground of Northern Canada." *'We were traveling in a thick fog and saw a > animal, apparently at some distance, bounding along tbo hoiism at a most remarkable pace. AH down the line tbero wero cries of *UU3iv UAI ii uui nuiu from thj sleighs and tlio dogs c inrged nt a gallop in pursuit of the strange nnirail. After a rush of ten yards the rjuatry disappeared. The first mau had put his foot, on it and it turucd out to be one of the small mice so common iu thul country." Fastest Mail Handler. Ex-Postmaster General Wnnamaker's gold medal for proficiency in the railroad mail service was won by a colored man, Edward Burn*, who runs on the Sucra^ mcnto nnd Redding division of the Southern Pacific. He obtained 100 per cent, making not a single mistake in the distribution of 1,0011 postal cards which bore only the nnmes ot postoffices all over the Coa?-t and Texas. Burn's speed was fifteen cards a minute. Burns is a North Carolinian, who served seven years in the nrmy in Arizonn. He is now 30, and has been in the postoflicc department about one year. A Farmer's Disagreeable Ride; Guano 1st.and, Nkb?A farmer living east of Grand Is and had a narrow escape. While going home his bo:s a-became unmanageable and threw him and son out. The boy fell at the side of the road. The man's leg was caught in one of tlio hind who la of the wagon. He held on to the spokes with his hands nnd \vith head downward slid the w heel for over a mile, 1 ll.A Lamas 1 K_ YYiiuii iiiu i.iuais "iiu uy muning through ft lmb wire fence. Floyd Sprague, r neighbor, saw the Accident, nud when the tenia stopped helped tho plucky farmer out. He is reported as getting along nicely. The Man Who Doesn't Drink?Mr* Cleveland Looking for Him. ' A prominent New York Democrat is reported as follows in the Hartford Courant: "Those who constantly see him, and who hnvc been consulted frequently as to the forthcoming chnngcs in nil the departmi nts of the public service, siy that the firs* question which Mr. Cleveland row asked na to any person proposed to him for public place is?does no drink? Oreen B. Steps Down and Out. Washington. D, C.?The Secretary of the Jn'crior accepted the resignation of Clreen B. Ilaum a* romnrtastoner of Pensions and his designated Deputy Commissioner Andicw Davidson to take ehiirgc of that office until the appoint- Jb ment by the President of Raum's sueccssor. mm r?a?w . \ Not Mon?y Enough to Go Around. duction of force erni rendered neceewoy by the exhftM9 ion of the eppr.ipriatf >u.